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The Co-Design research group at the IT University of Copenhagen is a recognized research environment in the area of Co-Design and Participatory Design. Our core group members originate from research environments pioneering Scandinavian Participatory Design and Co-Design, and each have 15+ years experience in conducting, researching and teaching Co-Design and Participatory Design in Scandinavia, Europe and beyond. Co-Design is a design approach, where people affected by the design and solution are actively involved in the process of creating it. For us, Co-Design needs to be responsible and fostering open-minded and respectful engagement with people and their lives. We critically explore the possibilities offered by digital technology through prototyping solutions in collaboration with users. Through our work, we develop appropriate methods and tools and apply them in a broad range of application areas, including healthcare, mobile technologies, process industry, workplace and office design, and urban development. We also have substantial experience from teaching Co-Design, in studio settings as well as large classes. We are interested in a broad range of collaborations with other universities, companies and the public sector.

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Anne Rørbæk Olesen
(Post Doc)

Current activities

We are currently preparing a research application for Independent Research Fund Denmark. The CO-Lib project seeks to produce novel understandings of how to organise participatory design processes in the public sector to improve stakeholder agency in the design of digital public services (DFF1–FKK funding application).

Research application: DFF (Independent research fund Denmark)

Joanna is acting as Full Paper Chair for the upcoming international Participatory Design Conference, to be held in Manizales, Colombia June 15-19 2020.

International workshop on Teaching PD

The group is arranging an international workshop on Teaching Participatory Design, in collaboration with Tone Bratteteig and Guri Verne, University of Oslo. The workshop will be held in Copenhagen in the third quarter of 2019. 

Three projects in Linköping, Sweden

A three year collaboration developing three co-design and innovation projects in the area of social care. The different projects do social innovation as well as technology innovation for adults on the autistic spectrum and their formal and informal care providers and for social care workers supporting parents with extra support needs.

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Louise Petersen Matjeka
(External PhD fellow)
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